Summary Of Managerial Roles By Dr Henry Mintzberg

Managerial Roles

This concept was given by Dr. Henry Mintzberg. According to him :-
Every manager has certain behaviour associated with his work. These behaviours help them to perform the functions of the Management. It helps in smooth functioning of the organisation. Henry Mintzberg divided these Roles into three.
1. Interpersonal Roles 2. Decisional Roles 3. Informational Roles

Interpersonal Roles
As the name suggests these roles are based on interaction of manager with other people whether in or out of the company or organisation he is part of. Managers stay a long time in organisation and do not stay in contact with other people. That would create chaos.
A manager should be good at communication and should stay in contact with employees

They can use those relationships and well as other internal and external contacts to collect information knowing which is beneficial for organisation. This collecting of Information from various trusted sources, analysing them in proper way through a specific channel and circulation of allowable content of this information within organisation is the job of manager and this is known as Informational role.
Further Informational Roles are categorised as i) Monitoring, ii) Disseminator and iii) Spokesperson.

Managers collect information from various sources for effective monitoring. By monitoring various activities managers gets to know about performance of employees and organisation and what all changes are required to be done for betterment of organisation.
As Disseminator, the Manager tells his sub ordinates about action plans and strategy he has thought of based upon information he or she collected by monitoring. They also convey the specific problems and issues.
This can be either done by one on one conversation or by holding seminar or using print media for mass

A good manager puts in all efforts and tend to solve these problems as quick as possible and effectively. This role of manager to solve the problems faced effectively comes under Disturbance Handler. This is done by planning and strategizing, conducting sessions and drills.

One of the most important duty of manager is to allocate or distribute resources. A company for effective and smooth functioning is divided into many divisions which in turn seek resources from head office that is company as its whole. These divisions need resources to run, managers act as resource allocator and they distribute the resources available so all the divisions can work smoothly with any problem. These resources are allocated based upon nature of work of division and amount of resources available. These resources can be capital, employees, equipment’s, etc.

Today there is a lot of competition in market, all companies have to work hard and come up with innovative ideas to compete with other companies. Managers make sure that company adapts to changes and innovations of market for sustainable growth. This work of manager comes under entrepreneurs. It helps to improve organisation; better the innovation more well be the name of organisation in